The Bonfire of the Vanities (88 page)
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Authors: Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Pump House Gang
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
The Painted Word
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
The Right Stuff
In Our Time
From Bauhaus to Our House
A Man in Full
Hooking Up
I Am Charlotte Simmons
© 2004 by Mark Seliger
Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
and
I Am Charlotte Simmons
. He lives in New York City.
THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
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ISBN: 978-0-312-42757-3
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux